From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 2:34:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C401737BCC7 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmk@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA12418 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:03:19 +0530 (IST) Received: from pcd134.sasi.com ([10.0.16.134]) by sasi.com; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:03:18 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (pmk@localhost) by pcd134.sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25559 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:03:11 +0530 X-Authentication-Warning: pcd134.sasi.com: pmk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:03:10 +0530 (IST) From: Mohana Krishna Penumetcha To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PCI transaction ordering!!! In-Reply-To: <393EB0DD.B77711B4@ameslab.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, HP-UX device driver reference manual says, "The side-effects of any write are not guaranteed to happen immediately. Writes are posted; they will complete eventually" to make sure all writes are flushed from the queue, it suggests to perform a read operation. i would like to know if the above behaviour is same across all operating systems, esp if it is the same in FreeBSD case also?? Thanks, mohan Telecom R&D , FAC-D, SAS ph:- 5281461 x3078 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message